[Mageia-sysadm] planning for sysadmin task

[Damien Lallement]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:35:04 +0200, nicolas vigier
<boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> 
>>
>> May I also suggest all our web be installed using RPM ?
> 
> I am not sure RPM is the best tool to manage web applications in our
> case, especially for the ones that change often :
>  - it requires root permissions to be updated (or giving sudo access to
>    update the rpm, but this is equivalent to giving root access), and we
>    probably want the web team to be able to update some web applications
>    by themself.
>  - sometimes we may need to have different versions of the same
>    applications installed in different paths (one for testing, one for
>    production for instance. Or if we need different blogs or wiki
>    instances)
> 
> For some web applications it won't be a problem to use an RPM, but for
> others maybe not.
> 
> Nicolas

boklm  president!

I entirely agree with nicolas.
For me, Web apps and RPMs are not necessary a good thing.
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